Don't forget governments moving to cloud either.
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AWS Tokyo outage takes down banks, share traders, and telcos
Power users of Microsoft OneDrive suffer massive inconvenience: Read-only files
Logitech Bolt devices support secure Bluetooth Low Energy – but forget the 'Unifying Receiver'
Children of China, your state-sanctioned hour of gaming begins … now!
The battle is already lost. It's absolutely impossible to place restrictions on your kids regarding the Internet unless you're hovering over their shoulder 24 hours a day. If you somehow manage to find half-decent parental controls that work with all the computers, tablets, smart TV, etc... in the home and on their mobile, they'll just play on a friend's device or their school will make you buy a Chromebook which is admin'd by themselves so you can't change a thing yet has the world's most ineffectual content blocker.
And that's before we get onto the bullying and other more unsavoury aspects of social media/IM/online gaming. It's not the 80s any more when parental controls meant taking the portable TV out of the kid's bedroom, if they were lucky enough to have one in the first place. So, yeah, some joined-up thinking at government level would be nice. Perhaps some happy medium in between you on your own trying to hold back the whole of the Internet and what China's done.
Windows 10 to hang on for five more years with 21H2 update
When you finish celebrating Linux turning 30, try new Linux 5.14, says Linus Torvalds
Good news: Japanese boffins 3D print what looks like marbled Wagyu beef. Bad news: It's tiny and inedible
Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs
MS is irresponsible
If it works on older hardware it should install on older hardware without jumping through hoops. Perfectly good hardware is going to end up in landfill because Windows Update is going to badger people about Windows 10 reaching EOL but is not going to offer Windows 11 as an update.
Obviously the US and UK won't give two hoots about this, maybe the EU will.
When everyone else is on vacation, it's time to whip out the tiny screwdrivers
Re: Good vintage, decant carefully and enjoy
They put a load of paste in to compensate for the fact that Apple's EFI is programmed to start up fans about four seconds before total meltdown, as if they believe the noise of fans in a laptop might somehow break the illusion of perfection. Also as Apple laptops are have practically nowhere to vent heat, the fans are pretty useless anyway.
Thermal management is instead done by CPU throttling which is terrible for performance.
Re: ifixit
After following a couple of iFixit's guides I've come to the conclusion you're supposed to video everything you did and play it back backwards to see how to put it back together again, and you'll also hear a message from Satan Himself.
Why would they need to even put it to a vote, every platform has its own thoroughly-researched UI style guidelines book that leaves no room for doubt, right? Just like it did 20-30 years ago.
P.S. Those who entertain the thought of not labelling the colour buttons should be forced to fix Windows 11 bugs for the next two years.
UK promises big data law shake-up... while also keeping the EU happy, of course. What could go wrong?
Re: An interesting set of countries
She's obviously not ineffective enough:
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport also announced on Thursday that John Edwards, New Zealand’s privacy commissioner, would succeed Elizabeth Denham as head of the Information Commissioner’s Office. It added that the role would probably be expanded “to encourage the responsible use of data to achieve economic and social goals”.
Think you can solve the UK's electric vehicle charging point puzzle? The Ordnance Survey wants to hear about it
No place like GNOME: 41 in beta, features frozen for forthcoming release
Oh the humanity: McDonald's out of milkshakes across Great Britain
Re: Border Bureaucracy?
The "EU drivers paid per km" thing is an urban legend:
FACT CHECK: Are Eastern European truck drivers paid per km driven?
According to point 7, in 20 reasons why there is shortage of drivers in the UK, it's a real exchange and it must be done if you're a resident for five years in the UK or by your 45th birthday. Until then, when you're driving on your EU licence, there's no way you can prove your points to employers even though it's in the DVLA's records.
The EU is also facing an urgent driver shortage because our previously significant contribution is no longer available.
Ah, but then again, 50,000-odd* drivers from EU who came to the UK now don't, they stick within the Single Market on other routes. That itself has gone some way to alleviating the driver shortage within the EU.
* To pick one of the numbers I've seen thrown about.
Alternative paywall-jumping link
EU drivers delivering to the UK have vastly reduced cabotage rights on the return trip to make it worthwhile, so they don't come.
No EU driver will come to live and work in the UK either because pay is low, they have to navigate the Home Office visa nonsense, and they have to exchange their driver's licence for a UK one which means it's not valid for work in the EU. Why do that when EU countries are solving the low-pay problem already?
The government raised the number of hours worked per week for UK drivers giving them a de facto pay cut, unless the driver were to change over to another company with a signing on bonus. But it's not all about the money, perhaps drivers would like more of a work-life balance or to not kill someone due to falling asleep at the wheel.
As it takes time to train people and as being a HGV driver isn't particularly enjoyable, this isn't going to get fixed in the short term.
Live, die, copy-paste, repeat: Everything is recycled now, including ideas
Having trouble getting your mitts on that Raspberry Pi? You aren't alone
Asahi Linux progress: Apple Silicon OS works – though it's 'rough around the edges' and has no GUI acceleration
Re: I can't see the point in it
I wouldn't make any plans which depend on running Linux on an M1 Mac as Apple can just push an update which makes life more difficult than it is now or even impossible. If they wanted you to run Linux then things would be easier than they are now. Why not just support an ARM computer manufacturer who wants you as a customer?
"unlike iOS devices, Apple does not intend to lock down what OS you can use on Macs."
They already did, the bootloader will only boot partitions which look like MacOS installations.
In order for an OS to be bootable on Apple Silicon machines, it has to “look” like a real macOS installation. This means it has to be an APFS container with multiple volumes within it, containing specific directory structures and files. Until now, the simplest way of doing this was to actually install macOS a second time in a separate partition, and then replace its kernel with m1n1. This is, needless to say, a major pain in the ass, as the installation process is fairly slow. It also wastes around 70GB of disk space, which is how much you need for an upgradable macOS install. It also makes it difficult to install a specific macOS version, which is going to become a problem once we start requiring the usage of specific firmware bundles. This clearly won’t cut it for anything beyond early development.
Apple didn't engage with the infosec world on CSAM scanning – so get used to a slow drip feed of revelations
Re: Not the problem
It's not just photos, it also checks Siri and web searches and could probably be expanded to include other file types.
And what's to stop Apple running different country-by-country on-device checks depending on how they're leant on?
As the blog in the first post argues, it's probably why they're doing this in the first place, because they have a CSAM problem and were told by the US government to sort it out. Well, now they have a tool which can be turned into a Swiss Army knife should any country require it.
Eight-year-old bug in Microsoft's 64-bit VBA prompts complaints of neglect
Magna Carta mayhem: Protesters lay siege to Edinburgh Castle, citing obscure Latin text that has never applied in Scotland
Debian 11 formally debuts and hits the Bullseye
A Whopper of a bork for seekers of pre-flight nosh
Please do not touch the exhibits – or this tabletop Windows Boot Manager
Internet Explorer 3.0 turns 25. One of its devs recalls how it ended marriages – and launched amazing careers
Re: Sadly, there were divorces and broken families and bad things
And all of that for IE3 which at that stage it was pretty much a port of Spyglass Mosaic with a different theme. If you're going to screw up your private life over something, it might as well be a new non-polluting energy source which saves humanity, not porting a bloody browser.
Microsoft fiddles with Fluent while the long dark Nightmare of the Print Spooler continues for Windows
Re: Moral of the story…
Guys like Lennart Poettering who try to standardise things get shat on instead of rightfully receiving the praise they deserve for significantly improving the base system.
LSB is standardising the base system. Poettering is not improving the base system, he's reinventing the wheel, making things more difficult to configure by using proprietary binary formats (not what you want when a system is half-hosed), and introducing new bugs and exploits while doing it.
Before I agree to let your app track me everywhere, I want something 'special' in return (winks)…
Re: 21st century lamp columns ... incorporating sensors that can receive and transmit
In another story on the front page there's a story about toxicity in the Perl community.
I'm rather of the opinion that the human brain is unable to cope with social media instead of toxicity or stupidity in this community or that community, because it seems there's problems with practically any community you could name.
Re: Why Bluetooth
Google argue that apps could scan nearby Bluetooth MAC addresses and work out your location so the app must have the location permission in is manifest and you must turn on location on the phone to show you agree to this hypothetical piece of nonsense happening... and also by the strangest of coincidences you also offer up your location to every other app on your phone which wants it and Google themselves.
Firefox 91 introduces cookie clearing, clutter-free printing, Microsoft single sign-on... so where are all the users?
Chome's market share has come about because of Google's incessant marketing for more than a decade. Pushed on desktop with installers. Pushed on the search website. Pushed on YouTube by using Chrome's own standards that don't work with other non-Blink browsers. Pushed by sync. Default on Android which badgers you if you don't get a Google account. Default on school Chromebooks. And so on and so fourth. The miracle is Firefox's market share has held up so well.
Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports
Re: WTF?!
From the quote you highlighted:
"With many businesses struggling it is unsurprising that they will be looking for ways to cut costs."
A huge rented office building which has to be maintained just so everyone can go there every morning and go back home every night must be known an investment, then.
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
Re: Would need a 32-bit Windows?
The problem is Windows 3.1 was (mostly) 16-bit and only 32-bit versions of Windows have the Windows-on-Windows layer to run 16-bit software. 64-bit Windows only has a WoW layer for 32-bit software and Windows 10 is now only sold/supplied/whatever it is as 64-bit only.
Dutch education IT crisis averted as Google agrees to 'major privacy improvements'
Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system
Russian Arm SoC now shipping in Russian PCs running Russian Linux
New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it
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